“It shows there is a flaw to the playoff system, that a team can sort of limp in and win it.”

Kevin Harman, Los Angeles Galaxy, quoted in the Boston Globe

Have we now crowned the best team in league champion? Or did a mediocre team that lazied away its entire season swoop in at the end to claim the big prize?

That was an awful game. Neither the Revolution nor Landon Donovan showed up. They were smart. I watched the whole dreadful affair from start to finish.

The Galaxy did everything possible to lose; spending most of the game inventing new and ingenious ways to miss open shots. The Revolution did everything possible not to lose; spending most of the game inventing new and ingenious way to play timidly.

Neither team looked capable of - or interested in - winning. By all rights it should have finished 0-0 and gone to penalties.

But then the most improbable of improbables happened and Pando Ramirez (who taught the Galaxy everything it knows about missing open shots) scored his first run of play goal this year.

And that’s the way Major League Soccer’s first decade ended.

So it goes …

I now have a four and half months to contemplate the fact that in Major League Soccer the only thing worse than the regular season and the playoffs is the off-season.